[aprssig] Please,standardize UTF-8 for APRS

[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:

> UTF-8 is identical to ASCII for the ASCII values 32 through 126 (space 
> through tilde).  If that's a normal equal sign (ASCII 61 0x3D) there should 
> be no changes.

Just a small clarification. UTF-8 is identical to ASCII for the ASCII 
values 0 through 127 - including the control codes below 32.

So mic-e, for example, if encoded / transmitted in UTF-8 still looks the 
same good old mic-e to an ASCII-only-aware parser. There is no need to do 
tricks like 'first encode the mic-e data as ASCII and then encode the 
comment text as UTF-8'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 (History and Description chapters)

   - Hessu